Asus ROG Ally X20 goes OLED, but the mandatory AR glasses kill the bundle
A 7.4" 1,400-nit OLED panel and redesigned controls are the highlights, but Asus is forcing buyers to take $850 AR glasses nobody asked for
Gabe Newell says Steam doesn't pressure developers on pricing, emails suggest otherwise
Valve threatened to pull Rainbow Six Siege from Steam because Ubisoft offered a cheaper starter pack on its own store
A startup is using AI to find lithium deposits directly beneath Europe's battery factories
Volkswagen and LG have giant battery plants in Germany and Poland. A US startup thinks there's lithium sitting right beneath them
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 80% off the regular price.
Nvidia brings back the RTX 3060 12GB for $350 as GPU market gets weird again
Colorful seems to be shipping a refreshed RTX 3060 12GB in China as Nvidia turns back to older hardware
The quiet reinvention of search in the age of AI
How APIs and developer tools are quietly reshaping the way search works
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman in test of who is liable for AI harms
The complaint ties ChatGPT to a university mass shooting and a wave of suicides, arguing OpenAI prioritized growth over safety
China's military obtained Nvidia chips despite US export controls, report claims
Are Washington's chip controls really stopping advanced hardware from reaching China?
Hackers tricked Meta's AI chatbot into handing over Instagram accounts, including Obama's
All that was needed was a VPN and a target's username, the chatbot did the rest
Dashlane users locked out after brute-force attacks target password manager accounts
Security controls suspended accounts after repeated failed attempts to register new devices
Former Tesla employees say full self-driving is nowhere near as capable as Elon Musk claims
The data labelers who trained Tesla's FSD say they wouldn't ride in a Tesla robotaxi
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Review: An Awkward Addition to the Lineup
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE arrives outside China, but a year-old GPU with 12GB of VRAM and a $550 price tag struggles to justify its place in AMD's increasingly crowded lineup.
Craigslist founder and Sesame Street's Count von Count team up to fight online scams
Count von Count is helping teach adults one simple habit for spotting suspicious messages, Ah-Ah-Ah!
Anthropic files for IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in the race to go public
The AI bubble is heading to Wall Street, starting with Anthropic
Why it matters: Anthropic's filing turns the AI race into something Wall Street can finally measure. For the last few years, frontier AI companies have been valued by private investors on growth, ambition, and the fear of missing the next platform shift. A public filing will eventually force Anthropic to disclose the numbers that matter most: revenue, losses, infrastructure costs, margins, and how much money it takes to keep Claude competitive.
elementary OS 8.1 focuses on polish, security, and a smoother Linux desktop
elementary OS is a polished Linux distribution built on Ubuntu LTS that emphasizes thoughtful design, simplicity, and a distraction-free desktop experience. Version 8.1 makes the Wayland-based Secure Session the default, improving security, touchpad gestures, and display handling. The update also introduces multitasking enhancements, refinements to the software store, improved hardware compatibility, and more.
Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld gets a steep discount to $549
The Lenovo Legion Go S is currently available for $549, down from its original $729 launch price, making this Windows gaming handheld more competitive against the likes of the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. The Legion Go S combines an 8" 120Hz display with Ryzen Z hardware.
Asus unveils 3,000W PSU that can power up to four GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs
Celebrating 20 years of the ROG brand with a "godly" power supply
Meta's AI training effort is capturing employee emails and browsing history, not just mouse clicks
Internal documents show Meta's AI training logs browsing history, clipboard actions, and employee communications across 200+ apps
Intel Crescent Island data center GPU supports up to 480GB LPDDR5X with 350W air-cooled TDP
AI chip uses laptop memory instead of HBM, full specs and performance yet to be disclosed
Zig project leader says AI-generated code contributions are "invariably garbage" and will be rejected
Contributor poker has a negative value and makes real developers waste their time
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AMD @ COMPUTEX
Ryzen 5800X3D revival, 7700X3D launch, Radeon 9070 GRE goes global
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BUT HOW MUCH?
Surface Laptop Ultra unveiled with RTX Spark and up to 128GB of RAM
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THE WEB
Google engineer arrested for using internal data to win $1.2 million on Polymarket
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BUDGET GAMING
TCL is selling a 300Hz 1080p gaming monitor for $88
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HOW TO ENABLE IT
Windows 11 CPU boosting update is rolling out now
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THE WEB
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
Dell's new XPS 13 starts at $599 and is gunning directly for the MacBook Neo
This is Dell's thinnest and lightest XPS 13, but the entry-level config ships with 8GB of RAM and no headphone jack
A top economist says there's "zero evidence" AI is killing jobs, despite thousands of actual layoffs
Apollo's Torsten Sløk argues the AI boom is boosting employment
This solar-powered desalination device turns seawater into drinking water, can also extract lithium
Breakthrough solar desalination system produces fresh water without brine waste
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark chip and up to 128GB of RAM
Microsoft's first real MacBook Pro alternative?
Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home
Deep learning system detects mosquitoes and zaps them with a precision laser
MSI's latest gaming PC ships with LuckyClaw agent and a holographic companion
Just what every gamer wants
United flight turns around after passenger's Bluetooth speaker name triggers security scare
The device's name prompted crews to treat the situation as a potential threat
DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction arrives this August to make ray tracing look cleaner and more stable
The update launches with support for 27 games and promises better image quality without a major performance penalty
Mathematicians used Minecraft mobs to calculate Pi without writing a single line of code
A slime-powered experiment turned creature movement and item drops into a Monte Carlo simulation
AMD at Computex: Ryzen 7 5800X3D revival, 7700X3D launch, Radeon 9070 GRE goes global, AM5 support through 2029
AMD is focusing on cheaper upgrades and longer platform life as PC gaming gets more expensive
Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops
Nvidia wants to make your Windows PC an agentic and creator powerhouse
Why it matters: Nvidia just announced what it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built. RTX Spark is a Grace Blackwell system on a chip, 70 billion transistors on TSMC 3nm, with a Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Arm CPU built with MediaTek, and up to 128GB of unified memory. It is purpose-built for agents, and it runs full RTX gaming and creation on the same thin-and-light laptop. It is a genuinely impressive piece of silicon.
Moore's law is hitting a wall, so researchers are stacking silicon chip layers instead of shrinking them
University of Illinois team stacks three active silicon layers on a single chip, achieving 98-100% transistor yield
Forward-looking: For years, the chip industry has chased better performance by shrinking transistors and squeezing more of them onto a flat slice of silicon. That strategy is running into hard limits. A group at the University of Illinois thinks the next gains will come not from going smaller, but from going vertical.
A Trump-linked startup is sending humanoid robots to the Ukraine battlefield
The Phantom MK-1 has already been tested in Ukraine, with more capable models planned for this year
MIT researchers found a way to get lithium out of hard rock without the massive energy bill
Cutting lithium extraction costs nearly in half could change the economics of EV batteries
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